general electric

New York symbol GE, is one of the world’s largest industrial companies. It operates in six main segments: Infrastructure; Commercial Finance; Consumer Finance; Healthcare; Industrial; and Media.

VANGUARD INDUSTRIALS ETF $262.20 (New York symbol VIS; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Conservative; Market cap: $61.3 billion) invests in U.S. industrial companies. That includes stocks of companies that convert unfinished goods into finished durables used to manufacture other goods or to provide services....
MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL INC., $61.93, Nasdaq symbol MDLZ, is a buy.

The company makes cookies and crackers (Oreo, Ritz), chocolate bars (Cadbury, Toblerone), candy (Clorets, Sour Patch Kids) and Halls cough drops.

This week, Mondelez announced a new plan to buy back up to $9 billion of its common shares by December 31, 2027....
INTEL CORP., $20.92, Nasdaq symbol INTC, is now a hold.

The stock fell 15% this week after the computer chip maker announced that Pat Gelsinger has retired as its chief executive officer and as a director.

Chief financial officer David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, general manager of Intel’s client computing group, will serve as interim co-CEOs.

Under Gelsinger, Intel began a multi-year plan in 2021 to improve its technical expertise and expand its ability to make chips for other companies....
GE VERNOVA INC. $335 is a hold. The company (New York symbol GEV; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 275.7 million; Market cap: $92.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.7; No dividend paid; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.gevernova.com) makes turbines and related equipment for gas-fired and nuclear power plants, plus equipment for wind farms.


On April 2, 2024, investors in the old General Electric Co....
GE VERNOVA INC. $343 is a hold. The company (New York symbol GEV; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 275.7 billion; Market cap: $94.6 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.gevernova.com) makes turbines and related equipment for gas-fired and nuclear power plants, plus equipment for wind farms.


On April 2, 2024, investors in the old General Electric Co....
GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. $89 is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol GEHC; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 456.7 million; Market cap: $40.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 0.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.gehealthcare.com) makes X-ray equipment, MRIs and ultrasound scanners.


On January 3, 2023, General Electric Co....
STATE STREET CORP., $84.52, New York symbol STT, remains a buy.

The company sells accounting and administrative services to operators of mutual funds and pension plans.

State Street also offers banking services, so it’s subject to the Fed’s stress test, which it passed.

Thanks to its strong capital position, the company will raise your quarterly dividend in the third quarter of 2024....
Conglomerate General Electric has completed its plan, first announced in 2021, to split into three public companies.


The first stage occurred on January 3, 2023 when General Electric investors received one share of medical equipment subsidiary GE HealthCare for every three GE shares they held....
Conglomerate General Electric has completed its plan, first announced in 2021, to split into three public companies: GE Aerospace (jet engines), GE Vernova (equipment for electrical power producers), and GE HealthCare (x-ray machines and MRI scanners).


All three of the stocks are up since the split....
This section is the second part of our discussion on ETFs that represent each of the five main economic sectors. Here we cover ETFs in the Consumer, Manufacturing and Finance sectors.


Please see the supplement section starting on page 49 for more information on our five-sectors approach.


BMO GLOBAL CONSUMER STAPLES HEDGED TO CAD INDEX ETF $22.97 (Toronto symbol STPL; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Conservative; Market cap: $36.6 million) tracks the FTSE Developed Consumer Staples Capped Index and invests globally....